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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8220.111.J
Description
Central Utah Participating Project
State
UT
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
1/1/1993
Title
The CUP Holds the Solution: Utah's Hybrid Alternative to Water Markets
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />tr: <br /> <br />,..,.. <br />, - <br /> <br />c.: <br />~~ <br /> <br />'c <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />1993] <br /> <br />CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACT <br /> <br />161 <br /> <br /> <br />ture of $922 million to complete one of the most expensive transbasin <br />diversions of water in the history of the United States." The CUP <br />presents a unique opportunity to study the currents of western water <br />refonn, for the CUP is not only grounded in the past, when engineers <br />controlled the water of the arid West by pouring concrete, but is also <br />indicative of the future of water policy with one of the most progressive <br />water conservation, water management, and environmental mitigation <br />programs in the country.'. <br />Two facets about the CUP are remarkable, First, the CUP will <br />revolutionize water management in Utah. Second, two historic enemies, <br />environmentalists and fanners, have joined with urban users and other <br />interested parties to support the completion of a major federal water <br />project." This accomplishment-reform through mutual self-inter- <br />est-has been the allure of water market proposals hoping to end the <br />water wars. Yet efforts to create water markets have been relatively <br />unsuccessful. One way to better understand the success of the CUP <br />and the difficulties confronting water market proposals is through the <br />application of dispute resolution theory. This Comment, using the <br />principles of dispute resolution, examines the factors that have inhibited <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />together and forged the _ new 120-page CUP Completion Act, bringing real reform to a project <br />previously considered a fiscal and environmental disaster. The CUP Completion Act provides <br />for the completion of the project, but in a substantially different form than originally planned. <br />In this Comment, CUP refers to the CUP Completion Act of 1992 and not to the 'project aa <br />originally authorized in 1956. <br />t As originally designed, the most expensive component of the CUP. the Bonneville Unit, <br />would have cost about $2,1 billion to complete, H.R. REp. No, 114, 102d Cong,. 1st Sess. 73-75 <br />(1991). By comparison, the CUP is about three times as expensive 8S the Central Arizona <br />Project. which will coat about $4 billion to deliver about 1.5 million Bcre.feet per year. Propowlt <br />", &JiBe tM Authorized Coot Ceili"il for tM Colorado River Storoge Project: Heari"ilB on H.R. <br />3408 Before tIN Subcomm. on Water, Power, and OffBlwre Energy ReSOUrceB oftM HoU&e Comm- <br />on Interior and Insular Affairs, 100th Cong., 2d Sess. 36 (1988) [hereinafter Heari"ilB on H.R. <br />3408] (statement of Lynn A. Greenwalt. National Wildlife Federation). The legislative <br />compromise redesigned the Bonneville Unit, reducing the total cost to the federal government <br />to about $1.5 billion. <br />10 Some Utah politicians believe the CUP i. "the reform model." for future water <br />development. Hampshire, .upro note 8, at 46. However. many analysts believe that .[t]he <br />Central Utah Project will almost certainly be the last of the major water projecte in this <br />country.- Representative Wayne Owens, Remarks at the Western Regional Instream Flow <br />Conference (Oct. 21, 1989). Other observers question whether the "moribundity" of Dew dams <br />it only temporary. MARc itEISNER & SARAH BATES, OVERTAPPED OASIS: REFORM OR <br />REvOLlmoN FOR WESTERN WATER 25 (1990). <br />11 The legislation passed. through Congress with the broad support of Utah's conservative <br />Republican Senator Jake Garn and liberal Democrat Representative Wayne Owens, the Bush <br />administration, national and state environmental organizations, the Central Utah Water <br />Conservancy Dittrict, and the Northern Ute Indian Tribe. <br />
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